Output details
14 - Civil and Construction Engineering
University of Dundee
Article title
Modelling mechanical consequences of erosion
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Géotechnique
Article number
-
Volume number
60
Issue number
6
First page of article
447
ISSN of journal
0016-8505
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
This paper presents the results of 2D discrete element modelling tests investigating suffusion (internal erosion), which arose from involvement with BCHydro concerning modelling of internal erosion at the WAC Bennett Dam. This process is difficult to reproduce in the laboratory and cannot be generated in tests with high hydraulic gradient or by reconstituting samples with narrowed grading. The results in the paper provide, therefore, a unique set of results which can be used to validate constitutive modelling strategies. The findings have been used by others (e.g Ficher (2013), Géotechnique, 63, 118-128) to validate alternative constitutive models for erosion.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
A - Environment
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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